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...arteries, the standard theory through the modern era of cardiology. "The implications of this are enormous," says Dr. PaulRidker of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "It means we have an entire other way of treating, targeting and preventing...

...pain, but conventional tests see no sign of trouble. In the first study, Harvard Medical School cardiologist Dr. PaulRidker and colleagues tested blood, taken from apparently healthy postmenopausal women participating in the hospital's Women's...

...certain wide-ranging antibiotics have a reduced risk of suffering a heart attack, or repeat heart attacks. But Dr. PaulRidker, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and who...

...As cardiologists, we don't talk much about gum disease, but maybe we are the ones who are wrong," says Dr. PaulRidker, who directed that study. Proving that gum disease really is to blame will be difficult. For one thing, heart disease...

...evidence that this inexpensive blood test works, we are at risk of moving backward rather than forward," said Dr. PaulRidker of Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Doctors can screen for low-level inflammation in the bloodstream...

...Americans suffer from some kind of cardiovascular illness. It leads all diseases in killing about 950,000 a year. Dr. PaulRidker, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said the findings, combined with the results of a second...